Last week’s ABS-CBN news account about the anguish of a mother whose son’s life was snuffed out by policemen in Navotas certainly tugs at the heartstrings of parents whose child means the world for them.
“It was found out later that the 17-year-old victim was not the suspect the cops were looking for,” the report said. He said he will discuss with the leadership of the Philippine National Police its operational procedures, including the extent of command responsibility, to ensure a similar tragedy does not happen again.
The regular use of cameras during operations, attached to the upper part of police uniforms, to provide raw video recordings of encounters between law enforcers and the citizenry, is one of the PNP reforms that have been okayed years ago and is supposed to be fully implemented by this time. “The cameras create an equilibrium between the account of the officer and the account of the suspect about the same event – increasing accountability on both sides,” said lead author Dr. Barak Ariel from Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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